Another possibility would be to put Boost in a non-standard location where autoconf/configure would never find it, install various versions of Boost that you need into various directories, and then pass command-line arguments to autoconf/configure specifying where to get your Boost library from.
A third one would be not to install Boost on your build host at all, but to throw the various versions into source control (or artifact repository) and pull them out at compile time as needed. --Rob Mandeville Litle & Co. www.litle.com From: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dean Yu Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 8:05 PM To: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com; Mark Waite Subject: Re: custom build environments? We have an internal plugin that manages chroots for exactly this scenario. We set up the chroot through a BuildWrapper, and we override the launch method so that each build step enters the chroot before it executes. There's a lot of internal-only code in here, so it's not something we can open source. However, if you want more information, I can sketch out some more detail for you. -- Dean On 2/22/12 2:57 PM , "Mark Waite" <markwa...@yahoo.com> wrote: I experimented once with a "chroot" environment as a way to have different configurations on the same Linux machine. I found chroot to be more complicated than I was ready to use at the time, but I believe it can be used to provide different executable versions hosted over the same Linux kernel. If you need different Linux kernels in addition to different libraries and tools, then I think you'll need separate machines (physical or virtual). Mark Waite From: Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> To: jenkinsci-users <jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 1:19 PM Subject: custom build environments? Does anyone have suggestions for how to get Jenkins to make Linux builds that don't match the stock system environment that autoconf/configure would find? For example, if you want to have multiple versions of boost installed and compile jobs that each need some specific version. The information in this message is for the intended recipient(s) only and may be the proprietary and/or confidential property of Litle & Co., LLC, and thus protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify Litle & Co. immediately by replying to this message and then promptly deleting it and your reply permanently from your computer.
